This week, imagine all your thoughts and feelings as not a coincidence but the Universe’s way of getting all its messages in. As strengthening the accuracy of your intuitional intelligence. Or as A Course in Miracles calls it, “the internal teacher”.

Let’s be clear, 2018 hasn’t really given the zodiac a rest since it’s beginning. From the January/February eclipses and the chronological retrogrades of Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn, and Pluto. Why not utilize this downtime to allow for lesson implementation?

Convictions are inherently neutral. The owner decided where to place the conviction in the direction of love or fear. Harness the mastery of Taurus Season by allowing your convictions to uplift your thoughts, emotions, and behavior in the direction of both love given and received.

Biologically and spiritually speaking, we work towards this self-actualization through absolution. In other words, what prevents us from becoming our best selves needs to be identified albeit painfully. Then we’re left with a choice of grasping for that which gives us dysfunction or surrendering it.

The bottom line of this cycle seemed to be the question of what we choose to align our identities to. Our glory or our trauma? The Universe prefers one over the other. Social conditioning prefers its opposite. One gives you peace. The other gives you pain.

March was an energetically loooooong month wasn’t it? Pisces Season was emotionally trying for many, plus two full moons in one month, the earliest days of Mercury and Jupiter Retrogrades, and a new Mars story in strict Capricorn. April is here now. And thankfully, the Universe is giving us a bit of calm this week - as long as Mercury Retrograde behaves ! - hence the short horoscope with little transits. The theme of the week is: use the downtime to build a home for love. After last Sunday’s Full Moon in Libra, our relationships are receiving beautiful harmonization and mutuality. Speaking of love, Venus is now in her signsake Taurus where the Goddess of Love will help make our romantic partnerships and financial security stable, virtuous, and very sensual for the next 3 weeks. Build a home for this. Along the way, let yourself indulge when it comes to romance and let love work its magic since this weekend inspires responsibility. A Capricorn Moon starts on Friday until Sunday. Which will give us the motivation to get shit done so we can share the fruit of our labor this weekend.

Aries: Happy Birthday, Aries! I hope you’re enjoying the cosmic celebrations in your honor. If you’re feeling more subdued this year, don’t fret. Mercury Retrograde is IN Aries - so you’ll be tested to slow down and integrate wisdom until April 15th. The Universe’s gift to you this birthday is increased financial gain. Venus in Taurus is blessing Aries with economic abundance and a greater sense of relationship security. As a cardinal fire sign, your romantic style is brave and free. But you do cherish presence and safety from your partners. Ready to work, Ram? This weekend inspires responsible strategies for professional, disciplined, and long-term success. Use the productivity well!

Taurus: Lovely, Taurus, I’m pleased to report - it’s all about you! Venus in Taurus is going to bless you with moments and partnerships that help you understand and experience your highest relational experiences. You’re feeling more deserving to not only receive but generously give beautiful partnership, loyalty, and love until April 24th. Give in to romantic indulgence. Say yes. Lean in and experience what the Universe is trying to help you have. Friday begins an adventure when the Moon enters Capricorn! Make the time this weekend to explore unknown places with the familiar people you adore.

Gemini: I’m embarrassed to admit this but I really love the song “Secret Love Song” by Little Mix, Gemini. And I think you will too. Venus in Taurus is inspiring Gemini to stay detached a bit more and keep romantic feelings on the hush-hush. I don’t think this is an improper strategy. Unless it’s an attraction to the secret, perhaps emotionally unavailable type. When romantic partners show you who they are, believe them. Take your time exploring the emotions you have and see whether or not it’s for the right reason. This weekend’s intimacy vibe thanks to the Capricorn Moon may help you understand the reasons behind your crush’s intentions.

Cancer: Fellow Cancer and best selling author Marianne Williamson remembers that when she began a spiritual pursuit it made her friendships more romantic and her romances more friendly. Venus in Taurus is beautifying your platonic connections and blurring the lines between lover and friend. Transfer some of the unconditional love that you give to your friendships to your romances and make your romances more friendly with the ethics of friendship. A Capricorn Moon all weekend is prime time for date-night. This weekend’s itinerary has passion all over it so be brave in dating scenarios and/or schedule one with a partner you’ve had your eyes on.

Leo: When Venus becomes a coworker, there’s nothing you can’t do. You have charisma, magnetism, popularity and influence at work thanks to Venus in Taurus till April 24th. It’s not political, it’s just a fact of life - but people with not just efficiency but likability are appreciated and promoted. So use this adoration well by speaking on your expectations so that coworkers and/or higher-ups become collaborative and supportive. Spend this weekend with an intensive spring cleaning at the Leo Castle. Your productivity and efficiency will be off the charts so get rid of all the dirt and shadows form the months past to make way for the new energy.

Virgo: There’s a time and a place for planning because suddenly you’re bored by routine and schedule, Virgo. Venus in Taurus until April 24th is inspiring spontaneity, adventure, and passion to explore the unknown horizons and even people. As a proactive and thoughtful worker, you now have hearts in your eyes for partners who help you have fun and liven up the atmosphere with optimism. Put a pause on your usual habits of planning and organization. Set yourself free this month. A Capricorn Moon all weekend fortifies this theme and puts joy and pleasure on your newly abandoned schedule. Don’t say “no” to life, Virgo.

Libra: How are your sharing skills, Libra? Venus wants you find the perfect balance between giving and receiving while Venus joins in Taurus until April 24th. You’re holding a blossoming romantic opportunity in your hands now so it’s time to see which ones bear trust and quality. Additionally, find friends and lovers who let you speak as much as you listen to them. Register social curiosity. And work hard to reciprocate it. The weekend is a sentimental one thanks to a Capricorn Moon beginning on Friday. Plan a cozy, quiet activity at home with family or friends who make your heart feel safe.

Scorpio: Hardly an emotional lackluster sign, you’re all in. Venus in Taurus until April 24th is showing you how ready you are for romantic commitment, business partnerships, and/or the kind of quality love built to last. Additionally, you’re working hard to smooth out differences and find compromise among all. It’s either win/win or no deal. When the Moon enters Capricorn on Friday, the sexiest quality throughout this weekend is emotional curiosity. Ask questions to discover more about your partner’s psyche and register who returns the favor.

Sagittarius: As the zodiac’s centaur, your fire sign soul is free-spirited and independent. Though your heart’s recently a flutter for the opposite - strong consistency and reliable dependability in a romantic partner. Let it happen! Venus in Taurus is inspiring you to align your beautiful independence with an intellectual and reliable romance until April 24th. Let the contrast inspire a beautiful chemistry. Especially this weekend while security and practical approaches after Friday’s Capricorn Moon become major turn ons all weekend.

Capricorn: Repeat after me, Capricorn - vulnerability is the single greatest measurement of courage. Venus in Taurus is helping the zodiac’s preeminent stoic open their heart proactively to the people who need to see, hear, and feel it. Yes it’s scary and messy but Venus in Taurus wants you to do it anyway until April 24th. With Mars in Capricorn till mid-May, take advantage of this motivation. Mercury is retrograde in your emotional security space so you’ll be a bit caught between a push and pull. Do it anyway. This weekend continues the theme and ask you to put your emotional exposure on the agenda. Speak your truth, Seagoat!

Aquarius: Home is where your heart is, Aquarius. Venus in Taurus is helping the detached sign in the zodiac get attached to places and people who feel safe until April 24th. Who knows, who might even find romance in your hometown or with suitors who share the same values. This is a transit of building a home for love. Speaking of, perhaps have a staycation this weekend at home while the Moon transits Capricorn since you’ll likely feel a bit raw and sensitive. Don’t numb or deny the discomfort. Let it teach you what it’s trying to.

Pisces: Ruled by Neptune, Pisces has a strong grip on the emotional skills for love. While Venus is in Taurus until April 24th, it’s helping you narrow in and pay attention to how romance is also an intellectual technique. Venus is reminding you that while chemistry and emotionality is important, someone’s mental fortitude and vocal communication habits in love are now at the true heart of the romantic matter. Reconnect with friends after Friday’s Capricorn Moon transit begins an energy of socializing, community, and joy all weekend.

In the fires of Mars, we can offer our identities a rebirth. It’s completely acceptable if you’re in a space of radical beginning where you don’t even know where to go, what to do, or what to say next. Stay receptive, surrendered, and optimistic about uncertainty.

Tuesday’s horoscope will ask to explore our commitments and the work required for relationship. Ask - what am I willing to give and what am I willing to receive to keep my social connections meaningful? On Saturday enters tough Capricorn on providing months worth of powerful ambition for long-term success.

With Mercury and Venus in the sign of the Ram, we’ll have to engage with brave, direct communication, and behavioral momentum. We need to move forward in the direction of love from a place of confidence

So while we’re in the season of the Grand Finale, we can use Pisces’ waters to wash us clean. With Neptune’s magic, we will begin a process of spiritualizing our lives. We will lean on valuable - and practical - expressions like compassion, creativity, forgiveness, and kindness.

It’s the end of the first half of 2018’s Eclipse story; but the start of a story that will develop for the next 6 months. It’ll invoke the beginning to alternative circumstances, situations, people, and events in the Aquarius ruled themes for us. It’ll open at the close.

“We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured.” MLK

One week in 2018 down, fifty-one left to go. I hope you were able to anchor 2018 in joy, gratitude, and a commitment to radical recovery. If not, let us begin again. Especially since this Thursday the “shadow period” of December ‘17’s Mercury Retrograde finally comes to end. Because I’m a mutable sun sign, this Mercury RX really tested my emotional and psychological resilience so I can’t push it out of the door fast enough. I’m over it!

Enough about me, the curriculum for this week is consistent in cardinal Earth Capricorn. The Seagoat sign who holds high-minded discipline, responsibility, impulse-control, and a passionate inclination to be of service. We can all invoke the power of the 10th sign’s energy especially when resolutions, intention setting, and personal growth strategies are are the forefront of January’s conscience.

To help, passionate Pluto and messenger Mercury are partners in cosmic crime throughout this week’s horoscope. So your thoughts on personal growth, communication, and efficiency could be strengthened and integrity checked. On January 9th, approach your resolutions seriously since the Zodiac’s first and last bookends - Sun and Pluto - align in Capricorn and will carefully listen to your goals and examine your behavior for this intended transformation. And Mercury’s move into Capricorn on January 11th (1–11!) for three-and-a-half weeks will give us all the Saturnian mental magic to manifest our strategies with discipline. It’s important to hold the “Be Impeccable With Your Word” Agreement from Don Miguel Ruiz’s landmark 4 Agreements while Mercury is in Saturn’s signsake. I’ll leave you with the condensed version of this Toltec touchstone, “Be Impeccable with your Word: Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the Word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your Word in the direction of truth and love.”

Aries: Ready to rise, Aries? Down boy. Not like that. I’m so proud of you for working your ram’s tail off at your job and the Universe is looking to seriously reward you for your passionate career commitment. Consider Tuesday a turning Plutonian point in your professional development. Brace yourself for career change. If you’re on the other side of the spectrum, finding yourself unhappy, under-appreciated, overworked etc - use the power of Tuesday to release your attachment to your current career circumstance. Ask instead for transformation while owning responsibility for your low-level “stuff” at work. Since there’s no such thing as a no-fault situation. When Mercury enters Capricorn on Thursday, you’ll be focused on thoughtful and disciplined strategies for the success goal you’re currently thinking about. Ask the Universe what it would have you learn about self-development then pay attention to what comes up for you so you can develop a well thought out plan for your inevitable success. I can’t wait to see what the champion of the Zodiac achieves!

Taurus: Your least favorite thing “change” is coming, Taurus. Brace yourself. I know intimately well how much you prefer consistency and comfort over uncertainty. But Tuesday’s Sun and Pluto in Capricorn collision want you to work towards putting limiting beliefs in the sun’s fire. Release thoughts that 1) prevent you from your personal growth and 2) do not allow others to evolve in your personal resonance. Because the only existential truth we can rely on is that change is inevitable. So your response and resilience to this change is critically important for where you and your loved ones go next. Period. When Mercury enters Capricorn on Thursday, your thoughts and communication on “change” will get electrified by the smartest planet in the zodiac over the next three-and-half-weeks. So the Universe wants you to stay mentally, emotionally “open” or adaptable. Stay unattached to permanence and willing to learn modalities that push your growth and your interpersonal dynamics forward.

Gemini: Can you handle the Truth, Gemini? Whatever deeply meaningful circumstances you’d like the Universe’s clarification on will receive it on Tuesday. When the Sun’s mighty collision with Pluto in strict-ass Capricorn energizes but integrity-checks your experiences with honesty, intimacy, and even relationship commitment. Heavy stuff! So exercise the personal muscles required to sift through these discussions. And who knows you might move past the annoying “it’s complicated” status and into very certain territory if you’re proactive and working with values that ensure your alignment and righteousness with all parties involved. Emotional discomfort and conflict could arise so stay non reactive. Especially when Mercury enters Capricorn on Thursday for the next three and half week. And your ruling planet or Zaddy will give you the Saturnian disciplined psychology and words to experience this newfound level of meaningful truth with your iconic mind.

Cancer: 2 is better than 1, Cancer. Your interpersonally focused moon magic sign needs no reminder of the joy when two hearts come together. So I’m happy to report that meaningful experiences with partnership, romance, and careful consideration of relationship compatibility are upon you. Thanks to all this Capricorn cosmic activity. For the record, any activity involving Capricorn should automatically ring the love bells in your sweet little head. Anyway, it’ll be a week of intense and casual opportunities when it comes to matters of the heart. The galaxy’s ruling Star and intense Pluto’s activity on Tuesday in Capricorn is both fiery passionate and dramatically powerful for your current romantic circumstances. You might want to hang the “Do Not Disturb” sign on your door for Wednesday because it’s gonna get hot Tuesday night. Then when Mercury enters Capricorn on Thursday for the next three and a half weeks, you’ll feel less inclined for carnal intimacy and more enamored by an opposites attract style of intellect. You might even wants to put your ace card down on the table and proactively begin “the talk.” Regardless of form, let your suitors know the way to your beautiful heart begins with your mind.

Leo: Are you reading this horoscope at the gym, Leo? Making a green smoothie? Or how about at a preventive-care appointment at the doctor’s? I am so happy to report that no sign appears more focused on manifesting healthy resolutions and wellness this month quite like yours, Leo. To help your royal efforts, Tuesday’s intense Sun/Pluto alchemy could strengthen your particular efforts on mental health. A powerful psychological breakthrough or “ah-ha!” moment could help you execute your 2018 resolutions with a concise idea on personal administration. Think efforts like: time-management, increased financial literacy, mindfulness, etc. Head’s up the Universe is doing this self-care work because romance is coming! But first, Mercury entering Capricorn on Thursday will bless with you the discipline, self-composure, and grace to be the powerful King and/or Queen you’re capable of for the next three and a half weeks. So slay, bitch!

Virgo: Everyone and their Mother knows how hard you work, Virgo. Like literally every one of us. Now let everyone see that you’re not just all work and no play. The Universe is giving you the support to approach the ways you engage and practice joy, romance, and pleasure. When Pluto intensifies your efforts to enjoy life as hard as you work this Tuesday, you’ll feel a deep pull to express your creative and/or romantic efforts. Push the perfectionism aside and just do it. Create it. Say it. Be seen, Virgo! Begin demonstrating that you work so hard because life is meant to be enjoyed. Show us all your precise, creative gifts and abilities. Not for nothing, but there’s no such thing as a “non-creative person”. But if there is such thing as a person who just doesn’t use theirs which is not benign. So Mercury entering Capricorn will push you to work hard at experiencing and leaning into your joy. While giving you the mental magic to produce this creative effort and speak more joy, Love, appreciation, and righteous words. My Virgo Gala Darling is radically committing to her joy by staying in the “vortex” - contextualized by Esther Hicks - a space of happiness, unlimited potential, and talent as much as she can. Give it a try!

Libra: There’s no place like home. Right, Libra? And no sign knows the comfort of emotional security, divine feminity, mother figures, redecorating, and family quite like yours this month. So if you feel more inclined to “stay in” and politely decline social invitations, do it. Without apology or explanation. Especially when Tuesday’s Plutonian power aligning with the Sun in Capricorn will push you to commit in an effort that strengthens the ideas and experiences. Full disclosure, my Libra darlings, there is a likely consequence of hypersensitivity. So try not to take too much personally or make assumptions about whatever emotionally charged situation is hijacking your peace of mind. Stay centered. Ask questions for maximum clarity. Especially beginning Thursday when the planet of Communication Mercury enters Capricorn for next three and a half weeks. It’ll give you the ability to articulate your emotionality and outline what you need to keep your heart safe.

Scorpio: Speak now, Scorpio - speak! I know you’re more comfortable in the nonverbal. I know you’d rather sit back and observe quietly without a whole lot of talking but your relationship to vocal communication and listening are the critically important themes you must get over your resistance to. Because on Tuesday, a mighty collision between our galaxy’s ruling Star and the intense Pluto in Capricorn will intensify these efforts in your communication practice through a possible conflict so be curious about the experience(s) not impulsively confrontational. Curiosity and non-reactivity is the name of the game. Also up for the Universe’s consideration is the way you choose to experience an experience. What frameworks, modalities, values, teachings contextualize your reality? If you don’t know, ask the Universe and the books will fall at your feet. Especially when Mercury enters Capricorn on Thursday for next three and a half weeks., it will give you the disciplined and responsible efforts/experiences to elevate your speaking capabilities and communication styles with grace and wisdom.

Sagittarius: Now that it’s time for you to be brave and be “seen” since Sagittarius Season has recently concluded, the next most important step you’ll need to take is a clarification of your values. Meaning the personal convictions that guide you to make important decisions. It’s deep but necessary work and speaking of deep, Pluto’s collision in the Capricorn Sun will passionately electrify and transform your financial status/literacy and your values on Tuesday. So meditate on what personal touchstones and/or convictions guide your personal decisions. Life is not meant to be lived unconsciously. If you don’t know, Pluto will help you understand quickly. And so will Mercury in Capricorn beginning on Thursday for the next three and a half weeks. This Mercury transit which will fortify your personal security exponentially and the beliefs/values that guide your most important decisions. Only if you’re prepared and proactive about taking the necessary steps to learn more about the values that guide you to the success of the Sagittarius horizons.

Capricorn: Happy Birthday my beloved Capricorn! Barf, was that too much sentimentality? I can’t stop myself. I’m sorry I just really appreciate your disciplined energy! I hope you’re enjoying your Seagoat Season because you are so very deserving of the joy and celebrations the Universe is giving to you. As a self-aware sign, you’re intimately in touch with what you’d like to personally change since you’re aware of your gifts and opportunities for growth. Tuesday’s Plutonian Power since it’s cosmically colliding with the Sun in Capricorn will give you an intense energy completely available for your healing, growth, intimacy, and forward movement. Speaking of forward, when Mercury joins Capricorn on Thursday and stays in your sign for the next three and a half weeks, your intellectual and vocal efforts will be strengthened significantly. The two areas you’ll want to focus on are 1) the ways your consciousness chooses to experience an experience and 2) your relationship to listening and spoken communication. Ask the Universe what it would have you learn in these efforts and your consciousness/communication curriculum will be given to you.

Aquarius: Believe it or not, Waterbearer, surrender can be sweet. Don’t consider it as quitting, despite what your tenaciously convinced fixed energy likes to tell you. Don’t consider surrender a resignation either but a very necessary and healthy letting go of all low-level circumstances that fail to contribute to your highest Aquarian good. When our galaxy’s ruler in Capricorn collides with the planet hell bent on transformation Pluto this Tuesday, it will become an energy that will give you the strong push to release, detach, surrender, and invite new existential circumstances in it’s place so that you can transform. If you’re feeling uncharacteristically raw, painfully vulnerable and/or emotionally exposed, that’s totally normal. Sit with it until it passes because I promise it isn’t permanent. When Mercury enters Capricorn on Thursday where the messenger God will stay for three and a half weeks, your mental connection or communion (frankly) to spirituality as you define it will become the most powerful source for your healing and personal growth. Commit with discipline to let worldly drama fade and invite otherworldly peace instead this season.

Pisces: When was the last time you checked the roster of Team Pisces? Remember this, my beautiful mutable merpeople - anyone lucky enough to call you their friend is a fortunate benefactor of Neptune’s unconditional generosity, high-quality empathy, and tremendous loyalty. But mutuality is the bottom line of friendship connection. So first examine how you show up for friends. Are you inhabiting the Pisces glory of unconditional love or the shadow of self-preoccupied suffering? Because Tuesday’s Pluto activity aligned with the mighty Sun in Capricorn will show you who can reciprocate your friendship capabilities AND where you can step it up too. When Mercury steps into Capricorn on Thursday where the God of Communication will stay for three and half weeks, you’ll want to mentally join with your friends in powerful ways and support each other’s dreams, goals, and resolutions. Because the nature of the collaboration determines the outcome’s result.